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To: bentway who wrote (369553)	2/2/2008 11:07:34 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1581205

Adjusted for inflation John Connally prolly still wins. Actually he was a pretty cool dude buy todays standards. Sadly, Romney was probably the best chance for someone who knew enough about economics to buffer the economic downturn.

To: bentway who wrote (369553)	2/2/2008 12:09:16 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1581205

>Romney isn't broke. Romney will NEVER be broke. Romney's campaign is broke. He put $17 million of his own money into it last quarter. Without it, he had very little. He's not worth billions, like Bloomberg, remember. He started his campaign at around $250 mil of net worth. Say $100 million of that is fairly liquid. How much is his family willing to let him spend of that on the campaign? Say, $50 million? That's nothing. Each general election candidate is going to have to spend half a billion in this election. Both Clinton and Obama have the ability to raise that. I don't see Romney and McCain doing it if they can't outraise Ron Paul right now, and the Republicans appear to be tapped out as a party -- they're almost exclusively trying to recruit congressional candidates who can self-finance. How can the Republican candidate raise record funds in this climate? -Z